A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Priors of Merton 



Robert Bayle,* circa 1 115-50 



Robert II.,' 1150-67 



William,' 1 167-77-8 



Stephen,* 1 177-8 



Robert," -1186 



Richard," 1 190-8 



Walter,' 1 198-12 1 8 



Thomas de Wllst,^ 1218-22 



Giles de Bourne,' 1222, resigned 123 1 



Henry de Basinges," 123 1-8 



Robert de Haxham," 1238-9-49 



Eustachius," 1249-52 



Gilbert de Asshe," 1252-92 



Nicholas Tregony," 1292-6 



Edmund de Herierd," 1296, resigned 



1305 

 Geoffrey de Alkemondbury,'" 1305-6-7 

 William de Brokesburn," 1 307-34-5 

 Thomas de Kent," 1334-5-9 

 John de Lytlynton or Littleton,"" 1339, 



deposed 1345 

 William de Friston," 1345-61 

 Geoffrey de Chaddesley, 1361-8 

 Robert de Wyndesore," 1368-1403 

 Michael Kymptone," 1403-13 

 John Romeney,'' 1413-22 

 Thomas Shirfeld, 1422, resigned 1432 

 William Kent, 1432 



» A list of priors and the date of their death or 

 resignation is found up to the year 1307 in the 

 Merton Chartulary (Cott. MS. Cleop. C. vii. f. 

 196). The Chronicles of Merton in the Bodleian 

 give a list of priors from the foundation up to 1432. 



' Cott. MS. Cleop. C. vii. f. 196. 



> Ibid. « Ibid. » Ibid. « Ibid. 



' Ibid. Prior Walter resigned to take the Car- 

 thusian habit. Pat. 2 Hen. III. m. i. 



« Cott. MS Cleop. C. vii. f. 196; he was cel- 

 larer of his house (Pat. 3 Hen. ill. m. 6). 



» Cott. MS. Cleop. C. vii. f. 196 ; Pat. 6 

 Hen. III. m. 2. Prior Giles resigned his office in 

 order to become a Cistercian monk at Beaulieu 

 {j^nn. Mm. (Rolls Ser.), iii. 128.) 



»» Pat. 16 Hen. III. m. 10 ; Cott. MS. Cleop. 

 C. vii. f. 196. 



» Ibid. 



" Ibid. 



" Ibid. Pat. 20 Edw. I. m. 15. 



i« Ibid. 20 Edw. I. m. 14; Cott. MS. Cleop. 

 C. vii. f. 196. 



's Ibid. Pat. 25 Edw. I. m. 23. 



i« Ibid. 34 Edw. I. m. 33 ; Cleop. C. vii. f. 196. 



" Ibid. Pat. 35 Edw. I. m. 12. 



18 Ibid. 9 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 29. 



i» Ibid. 13 Edw. III. pt. ii, m. 18. 



" Ibid. 19 Edw. III. pt. ii, m. 22. 



»» Wlnton. Epis Reg., Wykeham, i, pt. i, f. iz. 

 Pat. I Hen. IV. pt. v. m. 38. 



" Ibid. f. 335. 



" Ibid. Beaufort, i. f. 49. 



John Kingston," occurs I479, ^^^^ '4^5 

 John Gisbourne," 1485-1502 

 William Sayling,'" 1502-20 

 John Lacy," 1520-30 

 John Ramsey," 1530-8 



A very fine pointed oval seal exists of 

 this monastery.'" Matrix made in 1241. 

 Obvene— The blessed Virgin crowrned seated 

 on a throne, with Holy Child crowned 

 on left knee ; in the right hand a short 

 sceptre. The background is diapered with 

 quatrefoiled flowers. Above is an elaborate 

 canopy, representing the conventual church, 

 with central tower, and spire, and pinnacles 

 at each end. On each side is a vesica- 

 shaped countersunk panel, containing the 

 head or a tonsured canon facing the Virgin. 

 Legend : • sigiix' : ecclesie : sancte : 

 MARIE : DE : MERITONA. Reverse — 

 St. Augustine on a corbel, holding a crozier 

 in the left hand, and giving the blessing 

 with the right. Above is a canopy, repre- 

 senting a church very similar to the one on 

 the obverse. Legend : mundi : lucerna : 

 Nos : augustini : guberna. On the rim of 

 the seal is the legend : augustine • pater • 



QUOS • INSTRUIS • IN ' MERITONA ' HIS ' CHRISTI * 

 MATER • TUTRIX " EST ATQUE " PATRONA. 



6. THE PRIORY OF NEWARK 



Tanner and Manning and Bray, followed 

 by the editors of the Monastkon, state that 

 the priory of Aldbury in the parish of Send, 

 afterwards called Newark or the New Place 

 by Guildford,^" was founded by Ruald de 



2* Pat. 19 Edw. IV. m. 31 ; 20 Edw. IV. pt. i, 

 m. 25 ; Harl. MS. 433, f. 200. 



»5 Pat. 2 Ric. III. pt. ii, m. 19. 



'« Winton. Epis. Reg., Fox, i. f. 17. 



" Ibid. iv. f. 26; L. and P. Hen. VIII. iii. 753. 



28 L. and, P. Hen. VIII. iv. 6172, 6200, 6296. 



2' Cott. Chart, xxi. 25 ; Manning and Bray, 

 Hist, of SuTT., i. 258 ; Dugdale, Mon. vi. 246. 



2» On the Patent Rolls of Edward III. (Pat. 

 5 Edw. III. pt. ii, m. 23) is a protection for a year 

 dated August 1 33 1 for the master and brethren 

 of the hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr at Guild- 

 ford for collecting alms. It seems clear that this 

 entry had reference to the priory of St. Thomas 

 the Martyr of Newark near Guildford, as it is 

 occasionally difficult, as already stated, to distin- 

 guish between hospitals and small Austin priories. 



It may however be said that at the end of Spital 

 Street, at the junction of the London and Epsom 

 roads, in the parish of Holy Trinity, Guildford, 

 but on the border of Stoke, a small ancient building 

 known as the Spital was standing up to the last 

 century. The person who held the land was 

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